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Micro-allocations are also made for Internet operators of critical infrastructures, like the public IXPs, core DNS service providers (e.g. ICANN-sanctioned root, gTLD, and ccTLD operators) as well as the RIRs and IANA.

These allocations will be no longer than a /48. Multiple allocations may be granted in certain situations.

The micro-allocations are available at: www.arin.net/reference/micro_allocations.html

LACNIC

LACNIC makes micro-allocations in case of projects and network infrastructure that are key or critical for the operation and development of IPv6 within the region, such as IXPs (Internet Exchange Points), NAPs (Network Access Points), RIRs (Regional Internet Registries), DNS ccTLD providers, among others.

These allocations shall be made in blocks smaller than or equal a /32 but always greater than or equal to a /48.

IXPs are qualified to receive assignments. If the requesting organization is confident that it will never need more than a single network then a /64 will be assigned. Otherwise, a /48 will be assigned. http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-256.html

II-2 Prefixes and minimum allocation and assignment size per region

The prefixes list and minimum of allocation and assignment size can be found for the five regions at the following places:

In order to carry out the investigations, the AIRRS (African Internet resources and Routing Statistics) project team requested a temporary PI assignment of a /48 for some testing purpose. The prefix assigned by AfriNIC is the 2001:43f8:40::/48.

Tests environment uses AS33764 which has IPv6 transit from AS1280 and AS2905. The prefix has been announced and was accepted by both upstreams.

Regarding the IPv6 PI assignment, we recommend the dissociation of the cases:

- Define the rules for portable assignments for critical Internet infrastructures. Those recognized overall seem to be: Publics IXPs, core DNS service providers (e.g. ICANN-sanctioned root, gTLD, and ccTLD operators) as well as the RIRs and IANA.

- For the IPv6 global portable assignment, consider a concerted work with the other communities which have adopted similar policy for a better communication on the issue, as /48 for end-site seems to be preferred to /32.

This work could include the standardization of the maintenance and distribution of filtering recommendations based of RIRs allocations and assignments minimum size and specific blocks used for them. An example of effort in this direction is the one published at:http://www.space.net/~gert/RIPE/ipv6-filters.html

Acknowledgements

AIRRS project team thanks AfriNIC for its support for this work.

[25/03/2008] AfriNIC-8/AfNOG2008: Registration is now open

[14/05/2008] Board Elections 2008:Opening of public comments

[03/06/2008] Member Survey 2008

[11/06/2008]New Board Members

During the 2008 AGM held in Morocco after the AfriNIC-8 meeting, two seats on the AfriNIC Board (of Directors) - (the Central and Indian Ocean seats) were renewed.

After the vote, Didier Rukeratabaro Kasole (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Viv Padayatchy (Mauritius) were elected as primary BoDs, while Jean Philemon Kissangou (Congo) and Lala Andriamampianina (Madagascar) were elected as alternates for their respective regions.

Congratulations for the new board members and we wish them success during their term.

[06/08] Last call for comments on ''Global Policy For Comments on Global Policy for the Allocation of the remaining IPv4 Address Space

[29/12/08] AfriNIC to implement next phase of the 4-byte AS Number policy from 1/1/2009

On 1 January 2009 the registry will process applications that specifically request 2-byte only AS Numbers and allocate such AS Numbers as requested by the applicant. In the absence of any specific request for a 2-byte only AS Number, a 4-byte only AS Number will be allocated by the registry.

We would therefore like to inform the community that from 01/01/2009, unless a 2-byte AS Number has been explicitly requested, AfriNIC will be assigning 4-byte AS Numbers to any organization requiring an AS Number.

It is important to check that your routers as well as those of your peers, can understand 4-byte ASNs, as this is a relatively new implementation.